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Aartselaar

Aartselaar is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

Aartselaar
Aartselaar · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Aartselaar is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Aartselaar proper. In 2021, Aartselaar had a total population of 14,455 people. The total area is 10.93 km2. The municipality of Aartselaar is located in the southern outskirts of Antwerp. It is known for its 1801 windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen and Aartselaar BBC, the official basketball club of the town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aartselaar

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Schoonselhof

    Schoonselhof Cemetery is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. Schoonselhof Cemetery has an Islamic and Jewish section.

    3.8 km · cemetery in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg

    The Garden City Velodrome was a velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium. A 400-metre track, it hosted the track cycling events for the 1920 Summer Olympics and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships that year.

    4 km · velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Bernard's Abbey

    St. Bernard's Abbey, Hemiksem, or abbatiae S. Bernardi ad Scaldim, ordinis Cisterciensis, in dioecesi Antverpiensi also known as St.

    3.7 km · monastery · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Aartselaar

Airports
Brussels (BRU), 27 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 75 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 77 km
  • Charleroi → Aartselaar
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €10–13
  • Oostende → Aartselaar
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · €13–18
  • Eindhoven → Aartselaar
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €10–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aartselaar

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aartselaar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{listing | name | url | address | long | phone | fax | price Located in Oostende, mostly served by charter and freight flights.
  • Get inCalais and Dunkirk (France), a short drive from western Flanders, receive dozens of ferries a day from Dover in England.
  • Get inThe overnight ferries from Hull to Zeebrugge were axed in 2021, though ferries still run from Hull to Rotterdam (Netherlands), which has good road and rail access to northern Flanders.

From Wikivoyage: Flanders, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    242 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    402 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    620 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    773 km

If you know how people move in Aartselaar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aartselaar

Aartselaar is 10 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hemiksemmunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.1 km
  • Schellemunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.5 km
  • Wilrijkdistrict of the City of Antwerp, Belgium3.7 km